Fort Worth Museum of Science and History: Week 01

Wow, I can't believe that my first week serving as a Young Ambassador at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has flown by! This week has been packed with lots of hands-on experience with guests and opportunities to learn from fellow co-workers and local college interns spending their summer with us. As a current employee and previous Teen Tech intern at this location, I was fortunate enough to know almost all of the in's and out's of the museum. This knowledge made it easier for me to adjust and become comfortable to my new assignments. 

My project for the week was to familiarize myself with the new activities we have in our Innovation Studios exhibit floor, which included sky spinners and rods + rubber bands. As well as, interacting with guests through table top demos. I discovered that these activities were enhanced when the material or concept could be relatable to guests. For example when preparing our sky spinners for take off asking younger guests, "What are some things that you know fly high?" Usually the answers included: airplanes, birds, and bugs; this built up some excitement and joy when watching their sky spinners soar high. Another interesting thing I noticed is how guest observation of their project influenced what they did next time. For example, folding the ears differently, adding more or taking away foam weights, holding it differently inside of the wind tunnel. It reminded me of how I usually learn things by trial and error and eventually find an effective method. 

The rods + rubber bands activity was probably my favorite! After a couple days of practice my co-worker Sarah and I, with the help of a couple of museum guests, were able to build our own Yurt! It took a couple of build and take apart moments and a few snapped rubber bands, but we did it and it was very sturdy! This week has definitely been super fun and I can't wait to see what next week brings! 

Hasta luego familia! 

Emily Morales | Fort Worth, Texas

Unfortunately I couldn't snap a picture with our Yurt building team, but here is the finished structure!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MI FAMILIA

MI FAMILIA. As Sunday reaches its end, there's no longer workshops, reception tasks, tours, or any of the sort left. It surreal to not wake up with the sole purpose of going to the museum, a feeling I am going to miss. These last four weeks have opened my eyes to what surrounds me, taught me to seek more, to discover new assets in me, and has shown me to never conform to what I know; there's always room to grow. The team of MHAA has become my family and I can proudly say they are a part of the YAP family, which means that MHAA is part of of us, a part of you. I hope throughout the blogs, it has become clear how wonderful of a discovery this experience truly is, and it ended as great as it could ever be. During the week I researched Egyptian culture, gave tours to visitors, took the measures necessary to protect a painting (and I carried a giant bubble wrap through campus), and was in charge of handling and fixing the subtitles on an hour seminar, which would make the vid...
Read more

Successful Women in History- Final week in Atlanta

     The week has come to an end and so has the intership. This whole 5 weeks in Washington DC and Atlanta, Georgia has been quite a unique experience. It’s very dear and special to me. I can say I have been beyond blessed to meet all of the wonderful people and kids I have worked with during this past weeks. I’m glad my summer was like no other summer I lived. This one was very informative as well as educational.      This week was all about immigrants across the world to the United States. The kids and I learned that immigrants do not only come from Latin countries but also from the Middle East, Europe, Asia, etc. We read about many success stories of immigrant and undocumented families. For the kids to get a better understanding about immigration Mr. Andrew, the teacher, related it with the kids favorite foods! Such as hot dogs, pizza, french fries, donuts, tacos. These food had originated from Great Britain, Mexico, France, and United States. The kids...
Read more

Last Week at the Museum of Latin American Art

Image
Last Week at the Museum of Latin American Art The last week at MOLAA was definitely a memorable culmination of the past three weeks of summer art camp. From the deinstallation of all the galleries at the museum, to the party for all summer art camp volunteers, and the installation of the art gallery "Undocumented Stories", this last week was was to remember. The first days were spent deinstalling all the galleries at the museum. This was a rather tedious job since I was given the task of removing the vinyl lettering placed on the walls of the exhibitions which provided background information on the artwork and pieces. This showed me the much thought that is put into the creation of exhibits and the message that is portrayed to the audience.  Additionally, I was also given the task of coordinating and creating a celebration party for the summer art camp volunteers who generously volunteered their time for three weeks. The party was Havanna themed which left me and...
Read more